Power-transmission device.



FAWICK. POWER TRANSMIS'SIO'TN DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY-$119171 Patentm May 28, 1918.

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, all! torne 7/ we an having clutch-elements thereon between said driven gears, and like pinions loosely slidably mounted on said driving-shaft on opposits sides of said clutch-elements and independently shiftable into or out of mesh with said clutch-elements, the pinions having wider teeth than said driven gears and in constant mesh therewith respectively.

2. In a power transnlission-device, alined rotatable shafts, like driven gear-wheels fixedly mounted thereon, a crank-shaft provided at opposite ends with cranks having crank-pins, and conneetingrods pivotally mounted on the crank-pins, like clutch elements fixedly mounted on the crankshaft between said driven gears, and like pinions loosely slidably mounted on said crank-shaft and independently shiftahle into or out of mesh with said clutch-elements, the pinions 3. In a power transinission -device, alined spaced, like driven gears, a driving-shaft, a gear-wheel fixed thereon intermediate said dlll'filhgfiillS, said intermediate gear having llKG clutch-elements formed in its onnosite faces, a gear-wheel in mesh with said intermediate gear, and like pinions loosely slidably mounted on said driving-shaft and independently shii'table into or out of mesh with said clutch-elements, the pinions having wider teetli'than said driven gears and in constant mesh therewith respectively.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 28th day of Api'il, 1917.

' THOMAS L. FAVVICK. 'Witness:

PEARL M. STANTON. 

